This Oughta Be Good

Not just in movies. We have liquor stores handy & convenient in Colorado, as long as not too close to schools. 3.2 beer is available in supermarkets but not wine and beer (real beer is maybe 5% or so). Supermarkets in Nevada sell wine and liquor as well as all kinds of beer. Recently Colorado tried to pass a law allowing liquor/wine in supermarkets and all those free-standing liquor stores pitched a fit. Back when grocery stores started putting in their own bakeries and butchers, the stand-alone bakeries and butcher shops should have pitched a fit because it was the death of their business.

PA's liquor laws could definitely use some modernizing. In the 1970s we went to a wedding in Pittsburgh and thought a case of wine would make a nice wedding gift, pictured ourselves going aisle to aisle browsing the fine selections available. Nope - we went to one of those state liquor stores, and it was a bare counter where you had to know what you wanted and ask for it and the guy would go in back and get it. This is a challenge for those of us who shop for liquor with the 'I'll know it when I see it' method.

They're probably 75 - you're so young for your age anyone who seems older than you must be 90. I have a friend from Hawaii whom I think of as being 50 or 55, and it always shocks me when I'm reminded she's 69 going on 70.

One summer I used a lamp with incandescent bulb to warm the dirt in a raised bed planter that was tented with a bedsheet, and it worked well. I've been worrying about what we're going to do without the incandescent bulbs for those little warming jobs. I'm thinking of replacing all the ones I've got in use for lighting with the newer types and hoarding them for future needs. When I die, people are going to make fun of me - until they need one of those bulbs. Maybe I'll put a note.

Where it can get to sub-zero temps out here in the west, I've never heard mention of distributing livestock bedding materials to the homeless people, but it makes sense. If nothing else they could use the bales as windbreaks. But it really does smack of our society saying 'let them cake.'

Kristy, I don't think this showed up in my list of new posts, so I'm glad you mentioned that nobody visited it. I remember those days when you wrote about dating, and Ron was one of two or three guys you were dating. It's fun to think back to those days when we didn't know he was the 'one' and now we know how it ended up.

It gave me chills - everything looks so nice.

Those tea cups are lovely. Reminds me of my aunt's tea cup collection, which I'd totally forgotten about. I can picture one or two of them, but would love to fly back in time to see the full set.

I'm always amazed at how pricey restaurant food is because we dine out so seldom. Estes Park, my nearest town in Colorado, is a tourist resort, gateway to a major national park: an excuse for jacked-up prices for what's often mediocre food.

Exquisite, Marg. I'd love to do a steeked sweater some time, but it's a scary thought.

Sounds wonderful. I like making crepes at home as an alternative to casseroles - both can use leftovers.

We really enjoy seeing the lights displays that people come up with. The yards here in Las Vegas are tiny, some of them the size the area covered by 2 parked cars, but families still try to cram as many of those inflatables into them as possible. A couple years ago one of the homeowners set up a light show choreographed to music that was broadcast over a dedicated radio station - park across the street and tune up the radio station. He was in a fairly unbuilt area - plenty of room for cars to park without disturbing neighbors.

Does your homeowner's insurance cover it? If you have a lot of something like silverware, sometimes a rider is required, but maybe not for a smallish claim like this (as opposed to thousands of $).

You could tell the housecleaner that there must have been a burglary because you are missing these items that are going to cost more than $100 to replace, not pointing the finger at her, could she have put them in a different drawer because otherwise you need to obtain a police report for your insurance, so that will mean contacting the police. Maybe this would scare the flatware into reappearing.

It would be First Degree Petty Theft in the state of Florida, max penalty 1 year in jail and $1000 fine. https://statelaws.findlaw.com/florida-law/florida-theft-laws.html

You've taken a big step by deciding she has to go, don't waver.

Sounds like a good deal for you. Probably a lot of people don't want to feel locked into going to a lot of movies, but if they thought about it, it's a bargain.

Very funny, especially the last one.